My Pink Half of the Drain Pipe

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A blog on the business of being a cartoonist in London, with daily posts and cartoons. If you're befuddled, confused and irritated by modern life's complexities, then My Pink Half Of The Drain Pipe is your cup of tea.

Latest Blog Posts

  • Birth of a Notion on Nov 18, 2009 in New Yorker cartoonist cartoon

    When people ask "where do you get your ideas?", the correct answer is "I stare out of a window, allow my eyes to unfocus, turn my mind into reverse gear, and rinse and repeat for four hours". The difficulty is enormous. To catch flying ideas, a carto...

  • Eyes On The Prize on Nov 16, 2009 in cats cartoon

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  • Nobody Understands the New Yorker's Cartoons on Nov 9, 2009 in The United States New Yorker cartoon

    Have you ever been told something is hilarious, only for you not to get it?The New Yorker kindly gave a guide to understanding it's famously inscrutable cartoons this week.I am a big fan of the cartoons that the magazine selects. Some are dry, some s...

  • Books Do Furnish A Room on Nov 5, 2009

    I'm moving! This has been prompted by Hammersmith, which has just got a bit crazed recently. First there was the car that crashed into the garden wall outside the flat. Then there was the madman who invaded the council offices and brought all of Lond...

  • Eye Eye on Nov 4, 2009 in cartoon gag

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  • An Up and Coming Area on Nov 3, 2009 in desert island cartoon property

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  • For the Greater Good on Nov 2, 2009 in drugs

    This is the final report of the Committee for the Greater Public Good, after a twenty year research period into the use of politics in the United Kingdom.Politics is harmful to its users. Frequent users will be overly shrill and appear to have disord...